Sales of new electric cars rose by 110 per cent last month compared to the same month last year. Amid fuel protests and concerns over rising pump prices, sales of diesel cars dropped 30 per cent from last year.<\/p>\n
April\u2019s sales figures underline a rapid shift away from diesel and petrol models. So far this year, plug-in cars \u2013 either EVs or plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) \u2013 now account for 37 per cent of new car sales, compared to 21 per cent for petrol and 13 per cent for diesel.<\/p>\n
Total new car sales so far this year are up 2.15 per cent, with 75,074 new registrations.<\/p>\n
Toyota remains the best-selling new car brand with 14.7 per cent of the new car market after registering 10,386 cars, significantly ahead of Volkswagen (7,909), Skoda (7,193), and Hyundai (6,926).<\/p>\n
Premium brand Audi is now the sixth best-selling new car brand in Ireland, with 2,871, ahead of the likes of Ford and Nissan, while BMW ranks ninth, outselling Renault and Peugeot.<\/p>\n
Toyota\u2019s Yaris Cross remains the best-selling new model on the Irish market with 2,518 registrations, slightly ahead of Hyundai\u2019s Tucson with 2,373, and Kia\u2019s Sportage with 2,204.<\/p>\n
Hyundai leads the EV market with 2,103 registrations, benefitting from 660 sales of its Inster city car and 567 for its Kona EV.<\/p>\n
However, VW\u2019s ID.4 remains Ireland\u2019s best-selling EV, with a commanding lead of 1,231 registrations, ahead of Kia\u2019s EV3 with 666.<\/p>\n
Among the brands performing strongly so far this year, BYD sales are up 95 per cent, putting it in 12th place with 2,397 registrations, driven by strong sales of its Seal U and Sealion 7 crossovers. Citroen also doubled its sales year on year, due to the arrival of its new C3 supermini.<\/p>\n
As a result of the growth in EVs and PHEVs, automatic transmissions now account for 79.5 per cent of new car sales. And while grey and black remain the favoured colours for new cars, 4,331 green cars were registered, up 51 per cent on last year, while the number of new brown cars has more than doubled to 1,020 so far this year.<\/p>\n
The total vehicle fleet in the State was 3,307,717 at the end of March, according to CSO data, of which 122,562 were fully electric. That equates to 3 per cent of the State\u2019s vehicle fleet being EVs. Of these, 112,190 were private cars.<\/p>\n
While 6.9 per cent of Dublin-registered cars are now EVs, they account for less than two per cent of cars registered in Monaghan, Mayo or Roscommon.<\/p>\n
Regular hybrids totalled 225,512, while there were 105,067 plug-in hybrids by the end of March.<\/p>\n
Diesel remained the largest cohort in the national fleet with 1,892,137 vehicles, of which 1,268,377 are private cars.<\/p>\n
Petrol cars accounted for 955,403, including 859,810 private cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sales of new electric cars rose by 110 per cent last month compared to the same month last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-426770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}